Links for Final Web Site Assignment
(Down to Hunt Questions)

The following list of links is clearly not an exhaustive compilation of all of the available SETI material on the Web.  However, it should be plenty to get you started.  You are, of course, permitted to use links which are not on this list.  The simplistic explanations next to these links should be re-written to provide more insightful information about the various sites.

Scavenger Hunt Questions for Final Web Site Assignment
(Up to Links)
  1. What is the largest radio telescope in the Southern Hemisphere? Link
  2. Who is the host of the weekly radio show of the SETI Institute- Are we Alone?    Answer   Link
  3. What Senator cut off funding for NASA's project SETI, and in what year?   Answer   Link
  4. What does the acronym SERENDIP stand for, and what is it?   Answer   Link
  5. Who is Paul Allen and how is he important to SETI?   Answer   Link
  6. Although Contact is a movie linked to SETI, what other movie has introduced SETI to many people?   Answer   Link
  7. What is Project Ozma?     Link
  8. What year was the first modern SETI article written and by who?    Answer   Link
  9. What are the two BAMBI sites?   Answer   Link
  10. Where was Frank Drake's radio message sent to?    Answer   Link
  11. Where were the 1950 Trent Photos, a classic set of UFOs photos, taken?   Answer   Link
  12. Who was the oldest man to go into orbit?   Answer   Link
  13. Where is Area 51 located?   Answer   Link
  14. Why is Project Phoenix different from other SETI projects?    Answer   Link
  15. What are the distinguishing features of the Allen Telescope Array?     Answer   Link
  16. What does Seth Shostak write about in his book "Sharing the Universe?"    Answer   Link
  17. How does Project Phoenix relate to the movie "Contact"?   Answer   Link
  18. Where and when did the first Astronaut-Rover (ASRO) Interaction field test take place?   Answer   Link
  19. What is the new name for the One Hectare Telescope or 1hT?    Answer   Link
  20. In 1974, a binary code message was beamed from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico heading to galaxy M13.  If an alien civilization received the message and sent one back, in how many years would we receive it?    Answer   Link
  21. What is the name given to the most promising signal ever received by SETI?   Answer   Link
  22. Who was the Oort cloud named after?   Answer   Link
  23. When an astronomer says something is Type Ia, what is he/she referring to?   Answer   Link
  24. What is the closest galaxy to the Milky Way?    Answer   Link
  25. What does META stand for?    Answer   Link
  26. Where and when is the Bioastronomy 2002 conference taking place?     Answer   Link
  27. What is optical SETI?    Answer   Link
  28. Who wrote the article "The Quest for Extraterrestrial Intelligence?"    Answer   Link
  29. What are common radio frequencies used for SETI?    Answer   Link
  30. What is Project Argus?    Answer   Link
  31. What is Project Cyclops?    Answer   Link
  32. What was the total number of members involved in the SETI@home effort by May 2000?    Answer   Link
  33. Find the fax number for the office of SETI League.   Answer   Link
  34. What is SETI Spy?   Answer   Link
  35. What does "evo-devo" refer to?   Answer   Link
  36. What topic does the famous debate between Carl Sagan and Ernst Mayr concern?    Answer   Link
  37. Who is the Chief Executive Officer of the SETI Institute?     Answer   Link
  38. Who was involved in a SETI Project called "SUITCASE SETI" from 1981-82?    Answer   Link
  39. Where can you find a picture and description of Dr. Frank Drake's 1974 Arecibo message?   Answer   Link
  40. Who first proposed the optical approach to SETI using continuous wave laser beacons?    Answer   Link
  41. What is the name of an on-line newsletter that provides information about SETI related stories?    Answer   Link
  42. What is the Drake Equation?   Answer   Link
  43. How you know that signals are coming from an extraterrestrial source?     Answer   Link
  44. How does a radio telescope collect radio waves?   Answer   Link
  45. What is one of the advantages of building the Allen Telescope as an array?   Answer   Link
  46. What is weak signal communication?   Answer   Link
  47. Why can’t NASA simply send out a space craft to look for extraterrestrial life?   Answer    Link
  48. What project run by the SETI institute of Mountain View, Cal. was the 1997 movie "Contact" loosely based on?   Answer   Link
  49. What four things does it take to make a planet livable, according to current scientific theory?   Answer   Link
  50. What is the rate of star formation in our galaxy?   Answer   Link  
  51. What are five current microwave SETI projects?  Answer  Link
  52. How much does an annual membership to the Planetary Society cost for a student?   Answer  Link
  53. What is the EME?   Answer  Link
  54. Who heads up the amateur SETI poject BAMBI?   Answer  Link
  55. What is the JBO in reference to SETI? Answer  Link
  56. How large is the Ohio State Big Ear Radiotelescope?   Answer  Link
  57. What does IRASEB stand for?   Answer  Link
  58. How many users has SETI@Home had in total in the United States?   Answer   Link
  59. What planet besides Earth has been found to have microbes living on i t?   Answer   Link
  60. Who is the director of The Columbus Optical SETI Observatory?   Answer  Link

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